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First it's Mendelssohn's sunny Symphony No 4, the Italian, followed by Bruckner's rich and expressive Symphony No 6 in a concert recorded in the Philharmonie in January.

Riccardo Chailly played the drums in a rhythm-and-blues band when he was young, made his conducting debut in 1978 at La Scala, and is currently Chief Conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, a post he's held since 2005. Before the concert, we'll get in to the Italian mood with Vivaldi and Wolf at 7pm, and hear from the famed Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin playing an Overture Suite by Telemann dubbed La Bizarre because of its playful humour.